Word: medium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that is in itself tangible evidence. The political news from Germany points to a more conciliatory attitude. The outlines of a Franco-Belgian agreement made by Poincaré and Theunis were published, and point to the fact that economic guarantees between France, Belgium and Germany will be the medium through which a cut in the reparations bill will be accepted. In a speech at London, the Marquis Curzon, British Foreign Secretary, advised Germany to make a definite offer to France and Belgium. This was received in most European capitals, as a possible basis for direct negotiations...
...Gilbert and Sullivan works. For some reason the New York appearances were discontinued, not for any lack of popular support, apparently. Hinshaw is a splendid sort of person, a big, cordial fellow, who, raised on a farm, fell in love with music in his boyhood through the medium of a cornet, and who admits that, through all his years of distinguished success, he has never lost his early flame for the little keyed trumpet...
Vatican vs. Spiritualism. The semi-official organ of the Vatican, the Osservatore Romano, launched an attack on spiritualism. The attack was provoked by the Piccolo which declared that Jesus was the greatest medium, and that it was his spirit, and not his body that walked upon the water (Matt...
Conan Doyle was driven away from Christianity by the miracles. He now returns to Christianity by the miracles, explaining the Transfiguration, the walking on the water, and the resurrection of Jesus in the same manner in which he explains his "spirit photographs." These photographs, taken by a medium, show "ectoplasmic hands" and " estoplas-mic personalities" appearing in the midst of a crowd praying at the Cenotaph which London erected to its war dead. Conan Doyle says that Moses and Elijah appeared in the Transfiguration as such " estoplasmic personalities"; that "estoplasmic hands" could sustain Jesus as he walked on the water...
Apparently, being a medium is not as easy as some people think. The profession is, in fact, so difficult, and is becoming so crowded with incompetent, ignorant mediums that the Illinois Spiritualist Association is going to establish a college which will raise the standards...